Weather Data Field / API

Weather and forecasts are cached on the watch so you'll have data when you don't have cell service.  With Android, the weather where I live is updated every 20 minutes (if there is cell service), and I've heard it's about every hour with iOS.  See observationTime

You don't even know the location of the weather station, much less it's elevation.  observationLocationPosition is your location, based on the cell phone's location.

Thx Jim! Bummer about observation location. Good to know.

I was curious and a while back I put together a little app that would show observationLocationPosition on a MapView, so I could see what it was as I moved around town.  

jim_m_58 said:

observationLocationPosition is your location, based on the cell phone's location.

I do not believe that this should be the case. I'm fairly certain this should be the position where the observation was taken (where the weather station is located).

Travis.ConnectIQ  As I said, i have an app that shows currentLocationPosition on a map on a map capable device..  I'll send it to the general CIQ email and reference this thread.  It's a bit of a hack of a hack, so the code in a bit messy 

Or are you saying it's a bug?

I'm saying the behavior you believe you are seeing is a bug. The system should report the location where the conditions were observed, not the location you were when your device received the data.

The documentation specifically says...

var observationLocationName as String or Null

  Textual description of the observation location. If the app does
  not have the position permission then this will be null.
  
var observationLocationPosition as Location or Null

  Location where the conditions were observed. If the app does not
  have the position permission then this will be null.
  
var observationTime as Moment or Null

  UTC time the conditions were observed.

If the nearest weather station is at the airport 30 miles away and recorded the data at 3:54pm, the data should indicate that the conditions were observed at the airport, with a GPS position and a timestamp.

See, to me "Location where the conditions were observed" can easily mean where you are observing that weather.  

But it wasn't clear to me, and hence, I wrote the app.

IMO it only makes sense for us to tell you when and where the conditions were observed. I will throw together a test app to see what it says. If it is a bug, I'll make sure it gets filed.

My test app gives me the observationLocationName of "Corvallis Municipal Airport" which is about 27mi away from my home, but it gives me observationLocationPosition at my home.

If I plug the GPS coordinates of my home into the weather service, the response data has observationLocationName as "Corvallis Municipal Airport" and observationLocationPosition of 44.4971, -123.29 (the location of the airport).

So, for some reason the position data from the service is being ignored and we are being given the GPS location of the device instead. This is a bug. I've filed it as WERETECH-11121.